Conveniently timed to take place one day before the kickoff of Ecobuild Emirates, TEDx Dubai has hit the radar. Organized by Giorgio Ungania (an Apple Distinguished Educator and Marketing Manager for SAE) and James Piecowye (DubaiEye host and professor at Zayed University), the Dubai event appears to be organizing as one of the more visible, regionally/globally relevant melting pots for “ideas worth spreading”.
For TEDx DBX to host Leo Laporte as its first announced presenter sends a regional message: Leo has never presented in the UAE before. This signals a TEDx that will combine ideas that need to arrive in the region with ideas that need to be exported.
David George-Coch (@itsdgc) just posted this article with The National (UAE) Newspaper:
******* ABU DHABI // A version of a renowned conference that has included such high-profile speakers as Bono, Bill Gates, Al Gore and the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Murray Gell-Mann is making its way to Dubai this year.
TEDxDubai, affiliated with the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) talks held annually in California, will take place in October after receiving the green light from its US headquarters.
“The buzz is amazing. It’s like Woodstock in the 1960s,” said Giorgio Ungania, a marketing and new media manager with the Australian firm SAE, who is organising the event with James Piecowye, a professor at Zayed University.
“It gives me a real [sense] of the hunger in the UAE about ideas and forward thinking.”
TED has emerged as one of the world’s most prestigious conferences after beginning more than 20 years ago as an informal gathering of bankers and architects on the US’s west coast. Since then, it has garnered a reputation for attracting the world’s leading thinkers and doers to share their thoughts on global issues.
TEDx Links:
- Website: http://tedxdubai.com/
- Blog: http://tedxdubai.blogspot.com/
- Tweet: http://twitter.com/tedxdubai
- Face: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124613070864
- Linked: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1996524&trk=hb_side_g
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Asheville and WNC locals: we’ll be participating in some form or another with Asheville’s TEDx as well. We haven’t heard much since May 17th officially, but things are clearly moving. Check it out in case you’ve missed the buzz so far: http://tedxavl.com/ or follow them @tedxavl
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Last but certainly not least, we are still waiting for video to come online from Stacey Frost’s presentation at TEDx San Francisco. Cameron Sinclair wrote Urban Re:Vision a love note on the Huffington Post after her appearance there. Here are a few pictures:
